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Re: Copy text from pdf to TextEdit

Subject: Re: Copy text from pdf to TextEdit
From: Guido Tangorra <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:13:58 +0200

Hey Emmanuel,
finally I’ve solved it!

First of all I used the command line tool pdftotext to convert my PDF in a text file. SMILE’s readtext doesn't retain enough of the formatting of the PDF to parse.

set the_text to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8" & quoted form of POSIX path of the_file & " -"

Then in SMILE I searched the desired type of questions with a set of regular expressions.

set qText to find text regEx in the_text with regexp and string

I saved the result in a variable.

set outDoc to outDoc & qText & return & "----------" & return & return

Finally I have created a new text document to paste the output

tell application "TextWrangler"
    activate
    set myDocument to make new text document
    set text of myDocument to outDoc
end tell

Thank you.
Special thanks to Christopher Stone for his precious suggestions.

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:18:39 +0200
From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
To: AppleScript Listserv <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Copy text from pdf to TextEdit
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Not sure I understand what the problem is exactly, but just in case it helps I mention that Smile's "readtext" command can read text from PDFs (and from URLs and a lot of things by the way).

Best,
Emmanuel

On Jun 17, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Guido Tangorra wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to create a text file from a pdf source.
> I have a pdf with 1000 multiple choice questions like this:
>
> 1 Question 1
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
> --------------------------------------------------------
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 100 Question 100
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 1000 Question 1000
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
>
>
> The dotted line is the separator from a question to another.
> I want to create a txt with 50 random questions from the 1000 above.
> Any suggestions?
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